Modern games have become too focused on providing a clean, balanced and no-real-obstacles experience. Sometimes I want to play a game that is a cohesive experience without being laser focused on some big idea about how I should play it. As an example, I’ve recently replayed arx fatalis. It’s really fun how you can do everything in that game that you’d want an npc for in any other. It’s also fun how each playstyle requires its own big chunk of knowledge about how the game works. Modern games try too hard to be minimalistic and fail to see the fun in a truly open experience. Even when you have options, they have all the fun pre-balanced and pre-optimized out of them. They give you too much info. No sense of discovery

lol, I might just put a small image of like 6 of them XD

Thanks for the kind words! I’ll keep 'em coming :)

I like Michael’s channel, he’s got a good technical backbone and is able to explain things simply and without leaving important nuance out. He also edits really well visually in his other videos, if you can’t catch up to technical jargon you’ll just see and hear what’s going on. That’s how tutorials should be!

Though I totally agree, most youtube tutorials are a way rougher trip, but so are any written blog posts and guides. And those are more difficult to verify because you need to research writer’s credentials, where as in a video you can already tell how good the producer is.

I am a really slow and inattentive reader, so visual instructions work better for me. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, so I try to post an overview in text on what the video actually explains. That way, I’m not wasting text that most users probably won’t read and try to give a good idea of what the video covers to those who do. Part of it is also done in the title. Let me know if you have any feedback relating to that, I’m always looking to improve my writing style!

Defederation is a double-edged sword. In the end, those who defederate will lock themselves into a smaller space and lose out on content produced by users outside of their instance. With how hard it currently is to discover content, a big instance defederating from lots of other instances with little good reason can easily backfire. At least that’s how I see it from what I currently understand about Lemmy.

I think people are trying to defederate to filter content, which is not something that defederating is good for right now, cause every big instance has a lot of diverse communities. Also, there’s been concerns about bots and safety which makes sense, but that doesn’t mean that we’re under risk of staying defederated permanently or for any significant amount of time. Moderation tools, content filtering and discovery needs to become much better before that resolved for everyone in a satisfying way.

As for /c/thedonald and communities like it specifically, it’s ridiculous to take what seems to me as satire as 100% serious straight up bigotry, but I do understand that we’ve seen communities with origins in satire turn to serious on the internet before. I think an instance-wide flag for communities that signals that the content is satire when you open them or see a post from them. Allow communities to be created with it from the start but only modifiable by admins afterwards, so you can’t take it away or add it after a community is made. It might just work to mitigate this problem and help punish rule breaking quicker and easier.